climates and in the rules of climatotherapy there is not the clinical index which is really a therapeutic index. The book is in on slightest bias or variation from what he conceives to be the printed large clear type, and is handsomely bound and truth of the case. The book is divided into three sections. heavy paper. The old system of dosage has been used. The Section 1 having five chapters devoted respectively to the work is elementary and will no doubt be useful to medical stu- principles of Medical Climatology, Physiology, Ethology, Geo- dents. But we question whether or not such books as this graphical distribution of diseases, and Classification of should be implicitly relied on even by students. For instance, Climates. page 38, the author says: "Pus when thick and clear is known Section 2 has an introduction and four chapters, viz., as healthy or laudable pus or living pus; when thin and watery, Phthisis, Forms of phthisis as influenced by climate, result of puriform or dead pus; when bloodstained, sanious gummy the treatment of phthisis by change of climate, forms of dis- pus and contagious pus in smallpox, gonorrhea and venereal ease other than phthisis as influenced by climate. ulcers." On reading such a paragraph one is apt to rub his Section 3 has an introduction and ten chapters, viz., North eyes and re\l=e"\xaminethe title page of the book to see if it is America, Eastern Climate, Southern Climate, Rocky Mountain really printed near the close of the nineteenth century. Climate, Pacific Slope Region, Mexico, South America, Europe, It must not be inferred that this hook is a systematized trea¬ Africa, Asia, Australasia and Island Climates. tise on medicine ; it is in effect a dictionary of certain terms There are various charts and relief maps explanatory of the and concerning which the author has given more or less descrip¬ text and altogether it is safe to say that Solly's Medical Clima¬ tion according to his opinion of their relative importance. tology will be accepted as a fair and authoritative presenta¬ Viewed from this standpoint, much of the criticism that it tion of the existing knowledge of the subject for some time to would otherwise obtain falls to the ground. come. The author has not attempted under the head of Clim¬ Exactly why a fee bill has been placed at the end of the atology to prescribe special climate for particular diseases but work, or whose fee bill it is, it would be difficult to state, as has endeavored to lay down the broad principles of the subject there is nothing in the book about it. to the the of his own leaving practitioner duty forming opinion Transactions of the State Medical Association. Volume in individual cases. xiii. Edited by E. D. Ferguson, M.D. Pp. 624. New York: With some verbal changes the work will answer very well for Published by the Association, 1897. class recitations. As a work of reference it will be valuable This very welcome addition to our medical literature still to every practitioner. maintains the standard erected at the start. Careful research, Lippincott's Medical Dictionary. A complete vocabulary of the original views and lucid statement are prominent features of terms used in Medicine and the allied Sciences, with their the contributions. Among the writers are the well known and etc. Ry- Pronunciation, Etymology Signification, By names of Drs. J. W. S. Gouley, Joseph D. Bryant, T. D. Croth- land W. Greene, A.B., assisted by John Ashhurst, Jr., M.D., LL.D., George A. Piersol, M.D., and Joseph P. Rem- ers, J. E. Janvrin, John Shrady, J. Lewis Smith, George T. ington, Ph.M., F.C.S. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Harrison, Nathan G. Bozeman, H. O. Marcy of Boston, and the Company. 1897. 8vo, cl., pp. 1154. editor himself. The addresses of Dr. Darwin Colvin, the retir- This dictionary in its general plan is based on the dictionary ing President, and Dr. Charles Phelps, President elect, are of Dr. Thomas. In spelling both old and new forms are used, thoughtful, chaste and suggestive. Dr. Reginald H. Sayre on but in the pronunciation the English method has been "Roentgen's Discovery as Applied to Surgery," gives a mas- given precedence. At the same time it is admitted in the terly r\l=e'\sum\l=e'\of its present status, while the participants in the preface that the Roman pronunciation is increasing in use. A discussion of prostatic enlargement, all of whom deserve more number of new words have been introduced and will be found than the usual meed of praise, certainly a passing note. These very useful. While we object in toto to the English pronunci- were, besides Dr. Gouley, Drs. Samuel Alexander, W. G. Bron- ation of Latin words, we must concede that with the exception son and Douglas Ayers. Drs. John G. Truax, Thomas H. of pronunciation, there is little to criticise and much to com- Manley, T. M. Ludlow Chrystie, Nelson L. North, F. H. Wig- mend. gin, E. B. Dench, Frank S. Milbury, Sidney Yankaver, Rob¬ By reason of changes in medical science, in order to keep ert Aberdein, William M. Bemus, Alvin A. Hubbell, T. J. pace therewith one must have the latest dictionary, and we can Acker, Florince O'Donohue, Z. J. Lusk, Samuel E. Milliken, not have too many of them. The alleged phonetic system of E. H. Squibb and Irving D. LeRoy have also ably fulfilled the pronunciation, of which this book is an exponent, presents a duties entrusted to them. at and in instances one queer appearance times, many would The Semi-Centennial of Anesthesia, Oct. 16, 1846\p=m-\Oct. 16, 1896.Bos- need a translation of the phonetics; for example, the word ton, Mass., General Hospital, 1897. "saline" has for its phonetic se-lain' or se'lain, and Samuel We have already adverted to the Semi-Centennial of Anes- —which most know how to in their people pronounce mother thesia as celebrated by the Massachusetts General Hospital in looks rather the tongue, unfamiliar in phonetic, Sam'iu-el. Boston in October last (See Journal, Vol. xxvii, p. 768), and Obtusión must to this be according dictionary pronounced we now have a handsome book, printed on Japan paper, exquis- "ob and the word is tiu'zhon," plain "puke" pronounced itely finished, having for its frontispiece a picture of the old "piûc." Hospital and immediately following the title a reduced copy of We do not of this for the speak purpose of criticising unkindly the invitation to attend the exercises and a reproduction of all those who believe that correct English pronunciation has been papers read on that occasion, which were as follows: entirely lost by those living in the present century, but it cer¬ 1. Address of welcome by Charles H. Dalton, President of tainly is very far from the tendency of the day to use needless the Massachusetts General Hospital. 2. 1846 T. letters anywhere, much less by way of making an explanation Reminiscences of by Robert Davis, M.D., Fall River. which does not In other the an explain. respects dictionary is 3. Surgery before the days of anesthesia, by John Ashhurst, excellent one. M.D., LL.D., of Philadelphia. A Compendium of Practical Medicine for the Use of Students and 4. What has anesthesia done for surgery, by David W. Practitioners of Medicine. By Willis Webster Grube, A.M., Cheever, M.D., LL.D., of Boston. M. D. Toledo, Ohio: The Hadley Publishing Co. 1897. 8vo, 5. Relation of anesthesia and obstetrics, by John P. Rey- calf, pp. 664. nolds of Boston. influence of anesthesia medical science W. H. This is a of diseases 6. The upon by catalogue arranged alphabetically, each Welch, M.D., LL.D., of Baltimore. accompanied by a short description; some of them give causes 7. Surgery of the future by Charles McBurney,. M.D., of and all have a treatment. At the end of the work there is a New York.

Downloaded From: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ by a User on 05/23/2015 8. The birth and death of pain, a poem, by S. Weir Mitch¬ in California was unavailing and in obedience to a sentiment of ell, M.D., LL.D., Philadelphia. of his own he was carried to die in his old college room not The of Dr. J. C. Warren and William T. G. Morton portraits long after a speech made ata class reunion. His last residence are inserted, and as well an engraving showing the first public demonstration of surgical anesthesia, which occurred Oct. 16, was Newcastle, Delaware. 1846, and in which the portraits of those present are seen John P. Atwater, M.D., last surviving member of the class grouped about the patient (George Abbott), who is lying on the of 1834 at Yale College, died at his home in Poughkeepsie, on table at the where Morton has the anesthesia period completed 23. was born in 1813 at where his and the is just for the knife of Dr. Warren. The May He Carlisle, Pa., father, patient ready after his figures present are those of Drs. H. J. Bigelow, A. A. Gould, the Rev. Jeremiah Atwater, completing professional J. C. Warren, J. Mason Warren, W. T. G. Morton, Samuel studies, settled. In 1870 he removed to Poughkeepsie. Parkman, George Hayward and S. D. Townsend. Of these, Joel Washington Smith, M.D., Charles City, Iowa, June 6, J. C. Warren was at the time of surgery in the Med¬ professor 72 years. Dr. Smith was a member of the American ical Department of Harvard University ; J. Mason Warren and aged H. J. Bigelow afterward became such. Dr. Parkman was Medical Association, Iowa State Medical Society, Cedar murdered by Webster ; Dr. George Hayward was at the time Valley, and Wapsia Valley Medical Societies ; International Dr. the chief surgeon of the Massachusetts General Hospital ; Medical Congress, Philadelphia 1876, and Washington 1887 ; was then of Marine at Chel¬ Townsend surgeon the Hospital American Public Health Association, American Association for sea, having succeeded his father, Dr. David Townsend, in that capacity. the Advancemant of Science, etc. As a souvenir of one of the most interesting events of Alonzo D. Tagert, M. D., June 16, aged 53 years; gradu¬ modern medical history, the book will find a welcome in the ated in 1864 from Medical Department of the University of library of every progressive surgeon who is fortunate enough in his native State until when he to obtain it. Vermont. He practiced 1884, settled in Chicago and remained up to the time of his death. -Wm. Allison Todd, M.D., Chariton, Iowa, March 24, at NECROLOGY. one time president of the Iowa State Medical Society.-Isaac VanTyleGoltra, M.D., Springfield, 111., June 12,aged 77 years. William Thompson Lusk, M.D., born May 23, 1838, in Nor¬ -R. J. Goodman M.D., Sparks, Ga., June 16.-Victor S. wich, Conn., died of cerebral apoplexy at his residence in New Jourdon, M.D., St. Louis, June 13, aged 80 years.-Samuel York city, June 12. Having entered Yale College in 1859 he M. Martin, M.D., Greenfield, Ind., June 14, aged 55 years.- left it after his freshman year to enlist in the Union army but M. M. Powell, M.D., Collinsville, 111., June 19.-Nicholas in 1872 he received his honorary degree of A.M. from this insti¬ Schenkel, M.D., Allegheny, Pa., June 9, aged 40 years.-Asa tution and in 1893 that of LL.D. During the war he rose from F. Pattee, M.D., (instead of Asa F. Potter, Journal, p. 1202). the humble rank of private to that of Captain of the 79th Infan¬ try N. Y. Volunteers, otherwise "the Highlapders" from which regiment he was mustered out Feb. 28, 1863. He was gradu¬ PUBLIC HEALTH. ated from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1864 and In N. J.— The health afterward pursued his studies in Heidelberg, , Edin¬ The Scarlet Fever Epidemic Plainfield, authorities, aided the physicians, are investigating the burgh, Paris, and . Dr. Lusk won his reputa¬ by city sources of the which seems to have been of a mild tion from many been contributor and medical epidemic, pursuits, having to all of editor, lecturer and professor in the Long Island Hospital Med¬ form and found exist among classes the people. No- been in as ical College, the and the Bellevue Hos¬ favors have shown the general quarantine, and the has so far abated as to allow a few pital Medical College,a visiting and consulting physician of many a consequence epidemic of the schools to the summer vacation. hospitals and an active member of several scientific bodies. days opening previous His most enduring distinction in all likelihood is his treatise Draining New Jersey Marshes.—The reclamation of the Passaic on "TheScience and Art of Midwifery" (1880), which has been and Hackensack meadows is under discussion. The two are made familiar abroad in several languages. He leaves three about eighteen miles long, extending from Elizabeth to Hack¬ surface is daughters and two sons. ensack, and their width averages four miles. The Frederick J. McNulty, M.D., Georgetown Medical College in general five feet above low water level and a trifle above high or of 1860, died in Boston, Mass., June 14, at which date he was tide. The soil is either blue clay peat, the depth the from ten to Superintendent of the Austin Farm Insane Asylum. He was former ranging for the most part fifteen feet and less than born in Richmond, Va., in 1835 and was an officer with a record the depth of the latter being generally eight feet. of in of a service under four flags, to-wit, the United States, the Mr. C. C. Vermeule the State Geological Survey his- Confederate, the Chilian and the Cuban. Recovered from report discusses the relative cost of plans, and averages the wounds in battle, with a diplomatic training and an experience price at about $47 an acre. The accruing advantages to com¬ in Ludlow Street jail under bonds not to enter the Cuban army merce, manufacturing and agriculture would more than coun¬ he finally settled in Worcester, Mass., and in 1879 removed to terbalance the estimated outlay of $1,268,400. The health and Boston. He was a member of Camp Lee, Confederate Veter¬ welfare of the whole meadow district and contiguous territory, best a ans of Richmond and the Massachusetts Medical Society. it is suggested, can be promoted by single public Henry Loewenstein, M.D. University Giessen, Germany, authority planning to improve navigation and drain by the not 1857, for many years a police surgeon, died at his home in same work. The newspapers in their comments can forego Brooklyn, N. Y., June 10, aged -59 years. the tempting allusions to offensive odors, omnipresent malaria Samuel S. Troth, M.D., Jefferson, Philadelphia, 1849, died and "Jersey mosquitoes," but vote the proposition of redemp¬ in that city June 11. He was long a member of the Pennsyl¬ tion as feasible. vania Medical Society. A Yellow Fever Menace.—A San Francisco telegram to the George Kerr Edwards, M.D., son of a regular army sur¬ N. Y. Herald, dated June 13, reports the arrival of the City of geon, a Princeton graduate of class 1889, and an alumnus of Para flying the yellow flag. When one day out from Panama, the University of Pennsylvania, died in Princeton, N. J,, June a lady passenger died from yellow fever, and a few days there¬ 14. After attaining his medical degree he spent a year in hos¬ after the captain also succumbed. None of the twenty pas¬ pital work in Philadelphia and subsequently in the Johns sengers showed symptoms of the disease, but a quarantine was Hopkins Hospital. After nine months devotion to duty in the very properly ordered. Health officer Dr. Doty maintains 'latter institution tuberculosis manifested itself, since when in that a fever epidemic in New York is out of question and that his own words he kept "chasing health and hope." A sojourn the present menace, if such it may be called,, began on the

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